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Visitor's Guide to The Bahamas Nassau (Visitor's Guides - Pocket) (Volume 3)
Visitor's Guide to The Bahamas Nassau - Visitor's Guides - Pocket - Volume 3 Author:Blair Howard All of the detailed information you need to make your visit a success is here: the beaches, restaurants, shopping, and sightseeing. But I also lead you to new discoveries, turning corners you haven't turned before. That's what makes my guides unique. Photographs throughout. All the latest information on the best hotels in all price categories, ... more »restaurants, dive sites, dive operators, fishing guides and much, much more. You'll find more information on these islands here than in any other guide. The Bahamas were once the playground of pirates. Modern travelers can find a different kind of adventure here, exploring a shipwreck or beachcombing near a secluded cove. Each year, some two million tourists enter the country through its international airport and a million more arrive by cruise ship and private boat. Most of them stay for at least a day or two. New Providence Island, which measures 21 miles long by seven miles wide, offers a diversity of accommodations, from ultra-modern luxury resorts to intimate hotels. There's a wide variety of attractions for you to enjoy, from the all-in-one world of the Atlantis International Resort & Casino on Paradise Island, deep-sea fishing, diving, walking, swimming, bicycling, driving, windsurfing, parasailing, wave running, shelling, and snorkeling, to diving beneath the waves in a full-blown submarine. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely ? sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people, joining in the festivals and celebrations.« less